Malaysia Unemployment Rate
The share of the labour force that wants a job and is actively looking, but can't find one.
3.0%
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Jan 2011 to Jul 2026
Source: DOSM labour force survey, OpenDOSM lfs_month_sa · unemployment rate, seasonally adjusted, monthly, from January 2011.
Malaysia Unemployment Rate in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Malaysia, the unemployment rate was unchanged over the year to Jul 2026, from 3.0% in Jul 2025.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 2.9% in Dec 2025 to 4.7% in Jul 2021.
Its average since Jan 2011 is 3.4%, and the latest reading is below that.
Malaysia is 28th of 34 countries in our Unemployment Rate by Country ranking.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- DOSM labour force survey, OpenDOSM lfs_month_sa
- Series
- See the citation below
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Seasonally adjusted
- Latest observation
- Jul 2026
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
The monthly series starts in 2011, after a re-basing of the survey at the end of 2010.
Data refreshed 2026-10-06. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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